Monday night, the Blue Devils played in a game against Tennessee State most notable for the return to activity of center Harry Giles, rated by many as the No. 1 prospect in the 2016 recruiting class, from a knee injury that ended his high school career and a minor surgery that delayed the start of his freshman season at Duke. However, Tennessee State’s exceptional defense forced Duke to work hard for every point....

“I can’t breathe” resonates here, as on countless occasions half a dozen soldiers have pinned me down, grinding my face into the concrete, and it was all I could say. What the officers did to George Floyd has shocked the conscience of America, but it is painfully familiar to me. The U.S. has become desensitized to state violence, provided it happens out of sight and is done to brown-skinned people....

Remember that awesomely-bad college football movie with James Caan, Omar Epps, Halle Berry? The one where Steve Lattimer smashed his head through a bunch of windshields? There’s a reason “The Program” — which chronicles the fictional ESU Timberwolves’ turbulent season — remains the ultimate college football cult classic. It’s not a comedy (“Necessary Roughness”). It’s not a tragedy (“We Are Marshall"). It’s not feel good (“Rudy”) or feel bad (“The Express”)....

In a tweet on Tuesday, conservative commentator Owens suggested Democrats were plotting to target rich Black Americans under Biden’s plan that aims to raise taxes on households earning more than $400,000 annually. “Democrats enslaved blacks, segregated blacks and are now planning to tax black millionaires back into poverty—all the while convincing poor blacks (who were miseducated through their public schools) to vote for them,” Owens tweeted. “It’s so evil & Machiavellian— I almost respect it....

Harriot, a senior writer for The Root, took issue with the assertion Buttigieg made during his mayoral campaign in 2011 that many minority children have not seen the payoff from education. “Kids need to see evidence that education is going to work for them,” Buttigieg said. “You’re motivated because you believe that at the end of your education, there is a reward; there’s a stable life; there’s a job. And there are a lot of kids—especially [in] the lower-income, minority neighborhoods, who literally just haven’t seen it work....

“The Confronting Racism course featuring Robin DiAngelo is no longer available in our course library, at the request of the 3rd party content provider we licensed this content from,” LinkedIn vice president of corporate communications Nicole Leverich told Newsweek in an email on Monday. “We provide a wide variety of learning content, including more than 270 courses on the topics of diversity, inclusion and belonging,” Leverich said. “We will continue to add new courses to help people learn the skills they need to be more successful in their career, including the foundational skills we all need to be effective allies and help build a more equitable future....

The letter, sent to Congress Monday by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, bluntly condemned abusive police practices and “state-sanctioned violence” against black Americans across the country. A diverse coalition of 386 organizations joined the group in urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to enact federal statutory reforms on a series of policing issues. The civil rights group said use of force, police accountability, racial profiling, militarization, data collection and training are all urgently in need of sweeping changes....

“This is a very serious health problem. Nobody is trying to minimize that,” Azar said in an interview with Fox News. “It is a very serious public health threat to the people of the United States, and that’s why President Trump from day one has been aggressive with a whole of government approach and will continue to do so,” he insisted. Then, just a few minutes later, Trump weighed in with a tweet, suggesting inaccurately that coronavirus (or COVID-19) is less of a threat than the common flu....

Between November 6, 2012, when Obama was elected to a second term as U.S. president, and January 25 , 2013—six weeks after the attack on a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people dead—an estimated 36,142 more handguns than expected were bought in the state. That amounts to a rise of 55 percent, according to a study published the journal Injury Epidemiology. The purchases were linked to a 4 percent increase in injuries—approximately 290—in the following year throughout the whole of California, the authors believe....

After pardoning former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Trump on Thursday shared a call from Gaetz encouraging him to pardon himself. “Trump should pardon Michael Flynn, he should pardon the Thanksgiving Turkey, he should pardon everyone from himself to his administration officials to Joe Exotic if he has too,” Gaetz told Fox News prior to Flynn’s pardoning. Following news reports of Trump’s retweet, Fox News host Julie Banderas asked Reuters correspondent Jeff Mason whether he is authorized to pardon himself....

Ranking GOP committee member Rep. James Comer (Ky.) and Rep. Glenn Grothman (Wisc.), the ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on National Security, expressed concerns that Ghani may have “embezzled from accounts funded by U.S. taxpayer funds” in a letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday. “The United States must do everything in its power to seize any illicitly gained funds that were corruptly embezzled by President Ghani,” Comer and Grothman wrote....

The crowd gave the valiant elder a standing ovation, then sat back to watch youth battle for the championship. The defending women’s champ, Monica Seles, all of 17, showed up in Paris with a new haircut and a new deal (to represent Matrix beauty products). Her old “Yugo-fro” of back-length hair was the only thing Seles lost, as she shimmied into the fourth round in straight sets.

Heading into the 2022 NFL Combine, Hutchinson and Thibodeaux have built-in strong cases. Where Thibodeaux was thought to be a no-brainer first overall pick at the beginning of last college football season, Hutchinson has cast aspersions on that notion. Todd McShay has said teams have concerns about Thibodeaux’s “motor,” concerns that they certainly don’t share with regard to Hutchinson, who built an entire brand at Michigan behind his undeniable will to win (and the stats to back it up)....

According to The Mail On Sunday, Britain’s flagship airline has now ditched the traditional phrase in a bid to “celebrate diversity and inclusion.” Its usage will also be dropped in order to respect wider social norms and also make children feel included, the outlet added. In a statement sent to The Mail On Sunday, British Airways said: “We celebrate diversity and inclusion and we’re committed to ensuring that all our customers feel welcome when traveling with us....

While that’s especially true in booming Asian economies, the pilot crisis is a global one. In a report issued in late November, the Geneva-based International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that the industry would need some 17,000 new pilots annually over the next two decades to keep up with demand. The Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium estimates that Asian airlines alone would require 6,000 additional pilots per year through 2020....

The stadium that Dillon calls home, Lambeau Field, was converted into a soccer pitch for a friendly between Bayern Munich and Manchester City. Dillon was part of the Packers’ contingent who helped welcome Bayern Munich to Green Bay. In fact, he even showed Bayern star Leroy Sane the Packers’ locker room prior to the game. Hoping to burst some life into the Lambeau Field faithful during the game, Dillon wanted to do a “Lambeau Leap....

The first round of free tickets for the Aug. 8 show at InfoCision Stadium in Akron was released Monday, and fans claimed them within hours. The city says more tickets will be made available Wednesday evening in response to the overwhelming demand. MORE: Durant discusses possible Washington move in 2016 | Rose to Melo: ‘game would be easy’ Organizers aren’t divulging how many tickets are being offered Wednesday or in total....

As it turned out, their luck was just beginning. The authorities also arrested another man in the apartment, a 34-year-old Saudi they couldn’t immediately identify. It wasn’t until the next day that they discovered he was Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, another most-wanted Qaeda terrorist believed to be one of the 9-11 plot’s key “paymasters.” Officials tell NEWSWEEK that Mohammed and al-Hawsawi are both under intense interrogation, possibly at the U.S. air base in Baghram, Afghanistan....

“You think of risk-reward on coming back, you think of risk-reward on leaving,” Tagovailoa said in an interview with ESPN. “Now is not the time to be making emotional decisions. Now, you have to change into thinking as a businessman. You have to make business decisions.” MORE: Tua Tagovailoa injury timeline Tagovailoa talked through the pros and cons of both decisions in interviews with ESPN and with The Tuscaloosa News....